2024 January transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[pablo_picasso]

I'd love us to sign Eberechi Eze in January.  I think he'd be ideal under Unai.

The problem with signing PL based players is clubs want ridiculous fees.  Palace will ask for £60m+ for Eze.  I think we'll get better value in Europe and think that's where we'll be shopping.

I've heard it suggested that Nico Williams is still in our sights...

I hope so...

Imagine him on one side & Diaby on the other, with Bailey coming off the bench after they have ran the opposition defences ragged...

[Drummond]

I'd love us to sign Eberechi Eze in January.  I think he'd be ideal under Unai.

The problem with signing PL based players is clubs want ridiculous fees.  Palace will ask for £60m+ for Eze.  I think we'll get better value in Europe and think that's where we'll be shopping.

I've heard it suggested that Nico Williams is still in our sights...

Yep, but also that he'd rather stay where he is. Which is part of why I'd want him.

[Clampy]

We're in a much stronger position in a number of ways now. We're a win away from the top of the table after 30% of the season. He's on a long contract. He loves it here. We have a proper manager and staff. He's played every game under the manager. We're not desperate for cash. We're going well in Europe and challenging for the Champions League places.

As for Emile Smith-Rowe? haha. Maybe as a squad player but I can see him going somewhere like Brentford or Palace if he actually leaves his boyhood club.

BIt harsh on ESR. He's a very good footballer who i reckon would fit in well. Not at the expense of Doug leaving though.

[Toronto Villa]

If they want Doug we should want Saka or Odegaard. They’re not a lot better than us. We might both be CL sides next season. Why shouldn’t we be strengthening at their expense? Piece of piss this making up transfer news and gossip.

[Drummond]

I think with where we are now, there aren't many players we actively would like to go. Compare and contrast to days gone by where we wanted shot of half the squad.

[coreyfeldman]

I'd like Doucoure from everton and a new rb please

[Keeno]

Doucoure? To play where?

[Toronto Villa]

Doucoure? To play where?

Holding the door open for the real squad members would be something we could give him as a task. Because he wouldn’t be playing.

[coreyfeldman]

Replacing dendoncker, as back up

[AV84]

It'll be very interesting to see who we are really linked with in this window because apart from RB there isn't really a glaringly obvious position where someone would come in and have a decent chance at starting regularly.

For the record, I like Cash, I'm very happy with him, but we definitely need another player for that position, and he should at least be the same level as Cash, which means there's a chance the new guy becomes the starter.

I wouldn't say no to another striker as alternative to Durán to back Ollie up, but again not a position that guarantees a lot of football.

Midfield feels very stacked at the moment. So although I'd like someone like Neto from Wolves, for example, where does he play, who gets bumped from the team for him?

There's a couple of players way down the pecking order that we could clear out and replace with better. But I doubt many high calibre players will want to be 3rd or 4th choice defensive midfielder.

[Somniloquism]

As for Emile Smith-Rowe? haha. Maybe as a squad player but I can see him going somewhere like Brentford or Palace if he actually leaves his boyhood club.

Wilshere Mark 2. It was always on the cards though, i was never overly keen on the idea of signing him a couple of years ago.

And it is only because he was linked to us under our last but one manager that they think we are still willing to take him. He is such a "top talent" that he has played 231 minutes over the space of 8 games where he has appeared on the pitch at all.

[AV84]

We were linked with ESR this past summer too, but quite possibly only because we were linked with everyone Emery has ever met.

[IFWaters]

Another RB....Frimpong from Leverkusen?
Another striker...is Tammy fit yet?

[Dave]

Frimpong would definitely be that Moreno equivalent for the right.

Would probably cost about the same as Diaby did though.

[Lastfootstamper]

Frimpong would definitely be that Moreno equivalent for the right.

Would probably cost about the same as Diaby did though.

True, but given how fundamental fullbacks are to how we play, would it be too outrageous an outlay?